Christopher Nolan's new mind and time-bending thriller Tenet has now made over $100m at the international box office amid fears that it will still struggle to turn a profit as the coronavirus pandemic continues to have a calamitous impact on cinemas.
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The movie, which was released worldwide on August 26, stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson as two intelligence operatives racing to avert global disaster and it has been banked upon to prove the blockbuster still has a future during current restrictions on audience capacity in theatres and cinemas.
Tenet opened in late August in about 70 select territories, including Ireland, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United Kingdom, where it earned over $53 million.
However, last Friday was opening day in China, an increasingly important market for any major movie.
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According to Deadline, the sci-fi epic made an estimated $21 million in China, despite stiff competition from new Chinese historical war drama The Eight Hundred.
